{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 352/1924-01-23/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"So instead of preventing fermentation in the human being, it now occurs. And it occurs through an inability of the head that has occurred as a result of alcohol, so that the person is now full of fermentation. There is a strange expression in central Germany, in Thuringia. When someone talks nonsense, they say in Thuringia: He is fermenting. In these parts, it is not customary to say that someone who talks nonsense is fermenting; but those who have been to Germany will have heard it said in central Germany. And if someone always talks nonsense, then in central Germany, in Thuringia, they call him an old hag. So the thing is that in central Germany, fermenting is associated with being confused in the head, with talking nonsense. That is a very good folk instinct. You know that there is too much ferment in a person when they talk too much nonsense. Now, if someone has drunk alcohol and has a headache, then he does not talk nonsense, because he becomes quiet, but the nonsense is in him, it rumbles in him. So it is something that occurs to prevent starch and sugar from fermenting, something that counteracts the tangible effect of alcohol. So that one can say: There is something in the human mind that constantly works to prevent the starch and sugar in it from fermenting.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Nutrition","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-01-23","location":null,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-01-23/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA352/English/SOL2024/19240123p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Die Sache ist also diese, daß das Gären in Mitteldeutschland zusammengebracht wird mit Verwirrtsein im Kopfe, mit Unsinnmachen. Das ist ein sehr guter Volksinstinkt. Man weiß, daß im Menschen zuviel gärt, wenn er zuviel Unsinn redet. Nun, wenn einer Alkohol getrunken hat und einen Brummschädel gekriegt hat, dann redet er nicht den Unsinn, denn er wird still, aber der Unsinn ist in ihm, der brummt in ihm. Es ist also das, was da auftritt, um Stärke und Zucker am Gären zu verhindern, etwas, was der handgreiflichen Wirkung des Alkohols entgegengesetzt ist. 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